The Hollywood Freeway is one of the principal freeways of Los Angeles, California (the boundaries of which it does not leave) and one of the busiest in the United States. It is the principal route over the Cahuenga Pass, the primary shortcut between the Los Angeles Basin and the San Fernando Valley. It is considered one of the most important freeways in the history of Los Angeles and instrumental in the development of the San Fernando Valley. It is the second oldest freeway in Los Angeles (after the Arroyo Seco Parkway).
State Route 170 is a California State Highway in the city of Los Angeles that runs in a north–south direction. It is composed of two distinct sections. The first is the part of Highland Avenue that starts from Santa Monica Boulevard and ends at U.S. Route 101. The second portion is the northern portion of the Hollywood Freeway, starting at the intersection of 101 and SR 134 and continuing to its terminus at the Golden State Freeway (Interstate 5).
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“In Hollywood now when people die they don’t say, “Did he leave a will?” but “Did he leave a diary?””
—Liza Minnelli (b. 1946)
“The landscape of the northern Sprawl woke confused memories of childhood for Case, dead grass tufting the cracks in a canted slab of freeway concrete. The train began to decelerate ten kilometers from the airport. Case watched the sun rise on the landscape of childhood, on broken slag and the rusting shells of refineries.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)